Articles from 2013 – Page 122 of 150

Redbox Instant by Verizon now available to public

The doors have finally swung open on Redbox Instant, and now anyone can stream content via the new service powered by… Read More

Xfinity ‘Watchathon’ opens up a killer catalog, for a week

Attention, couch potatoes: Get ready for some good old-fashioned binge viewing. Comcast today announced plans for a “Watchathon” week —… Read More

Jury finds Nintendo guilty of violating 3D patent in 3DS

A federal jury in New York found Nintendo guilty of infringing on an inventor’s patented 3-D display technology for the 3DS… Read More

How big data will transform politics, education and just about everything else

Big data requires big thinkers. And some of Seattle’s top minds — from University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni… Read More

SXSW in Tweets: 40% increase from 2012; people prefer parties over panels

Here’s what we now know about SXSW: People love to party. The folks over at Seattle-based social media analytics startup Simply… Read More

Samsung Galaxy S4 leaks: Eye tracking, SmartPause, floating touch

Today is the day we’ll finally get to see the Samsung Galaxy S4 when the company’s newest smartphone is unveiled… Read More

New iOS app: You vs. Ken Jennings in a ‘Trivia Death Match’

Sure, you watch quiz shows and get a lot of the questions right, but how would you really do in… Read More

High-tech readers: Seattle libraries lead nation in e-book checkouts

About a month ago, we penned a post that showed how Seattle was slipping in the annual “most literate” cities list.… Read More

Microsoft: Overheating datacenter caused Outlook.com outage

A firmware upgrade failure at one of Microsoft’s datacenters caused the facility to overheat and shut down access to Outlook.com… Read More

Amazon downgraded by JP Morgan over slower growth

Amazon was downgraded from overweight to neutral by JP Morgan Chase overnight, and the company’s share price is feeling the effects… Read More

Bye, Google Reader: Don’t let the door hit you in the RSS

Google’s announcement that it will shutter Google Reader is a blow to fans of the program. I’m one of them —… Read More

Twitter for Windows 8: Microsoft really needed this

Twitter’s official Windows 8 app, released Wednesday night, couldn’t have come a better time for Microsoft. Well, that’s not true.… Read More

7 questions about the Seattle Police Department’s high tech surveillance program

Rapid advances in technology are making all kinds of high-tech snooping easier and cheaper. As a result, the Seattle Police… Read More

Seattle’s new arena might look like a SuperSonic jet turbine

Aerospace fans are going to like the proposed designs for the new $500 million SoDo sports arena. The Seattle investment group… Read More

Xi3 responds after Valve tries to distance itself from Piston gaming console

Two months ago at the Consumer Electronics Show, a new partnership between hardware manufacturer Xi3 and Valve seemed bright and happy. The two… Read More

Vyclone teams with Microsoft Internet Explorer on social video-editing web app

Social video sharing and editing app Vyclone expanded beyond iOS and Android today with the launch of a web app… Read More

City of Seattle green lights study for new high-tech traffic signals

Sick and tired of being stuck in nasty Seattle traffic gridlock? Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn feels your pain, and today he… Read More

Lessons from a Seattle startup founder at SxSW

Down in Austin, Texas for the huge SxSW conference this past week, 48 of the country’s top startups competed in an… Read More

Search stats: Google, Microsoft leading; Yahoo keeps slipping

Google continued to climb up the U.S. search market in February, inching farther ahead of Microsoft Bing and Yahoo. The… Read More

How this online portfolio service pivoted to donate money to designers in need

In 2011, husband-and-wife duo Keith and Jana Harper — both Seattleites — developed Well Crafted, a customizable online portfolio where designers… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Online art classes look to inspire a new breed of innovators

Nearly every day we hear about the importance of STEM education — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But what about the… Read More

Android’s Rubin changes roles, Google Chrome leader takes over

Google just announced a leadership change for the company’s Android group, with potentially meaningful implications for Google’s operating systems and… Read More

Amazon lowers Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ price to $269

Amazon today slashed its Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ prices and also announced the tablet’s availability in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan. Due to… Read More

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on what he learned about business from a ‘sex-crazed short-order cook’

We’ve not heard much lately from Glenn Kelman, the ever-quotable CEO of Seattle online real estate company Redfin. But now… Read More

Study: 25% of teens surf the web with a mobile device, 37% own smartphones

Spend time with a group of teenagers and at some point, you’ll likely see their attention focused away from each… Read More

Video: Mark Zuckerberg tells the story of how he inspired one kid to code

Code.org, the non-profit created by entrepreneurs Ali and Hadi Partovi, continues to gain momentum around its public relations campaign stressing… Read More

Netflix & Facebook, together at last — for better or worse

Netflix this morning launched its long-awaited “Netflix Social” feature, letting its customers connect their Netflix accounts to Facebook to share… Read More

OK, we still don’t really get why Zillow was removed from the Nasdaq Internet Index (and Trulia was added)

I was perplexed earlier this week when NASDAQ OMX Group announced plans to remove Zillow from the NASDAQ Internet Index — noting that the… Read More

Predicting commute times from the homestead: INRIX inks deal with Windermere

Home shoppers weigh all sorts of criteria when thinking about buying a home: How are the schools? What about crime?… Read More

Google to double size of engineering center in Microsoft’s backyard

Google is already deeply entrenched in the Seattle region, with more than 1,000 employees spread between offices in Kirkland, Bothell… Read More